Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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d plenty of occupationand amusement for all ages and tastes, andfor the slender purse as well as for preda-tory wealth. Twenty-five years ago Florida as a win-ter playground meant only Jacksonville,St. Augustine, the St. John, and theOcklawaha as far as Crystal Springs. Tothe tourists of those days all else was a vastspace, vaguely alluring but unknown andunattainable. Then there were but tworailroads; one running west from Jackson-ville to the Chattahoochee, and anotherfrom Fernandina to Cedar Keys, with abranch to the St. John. About this time,however, a Pennsylvania steel man built alittle thirty-five mile railroad from Jack-sonville to St. Augustine, to which he gavethe big name of Jacksonville, St. Augus-tine and Halifax River Railway, and withthis enterprise the vast system of touristroutes that now cover the whole state, wasinaugurated. After a while Mr. HenryFlagler, since known as the Magician ofFlorida, bought this little railway as aplaything. Then, to make business for his
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Florida 483 plaything, he began the restoration andupbuilding of Americas oldest town, towhich, within a year, he had not only givenone of the most beautiful hotels in theworld, but he had in other ways so addedto its existing attractions that its fame as awinter resort has since become as wide-spread as the English tongue. But this was only a beginning. TheMagician who had accomplished thesethings soon began to plan other andgreater enterprises. He cruised down theIndian River, touching at such beautyspots as Daytona, New Smyrna, and Rock-ledge, and still pushing southward beyondits ultimate waters he finally discoveredLake Worth with its charming but iso-lated little winter colony at Palm Beach.This was the most beautiful place theMagician ever had seen, and at once hemade a large tract of its choicest lands hisown. Then, that Palm Beach might beopened to the whole world, he ordered thathis railroad be brought to that point withall speed. At the same time he began theerection there

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